U.S. Stocks Gliding Into Year End

12/18/2012 10:30AM

Dow Jones Newswires News Editor John Shipman joins the News Hub to report on what to expect from the markets today, with many analysts anticipating a deal in fiscal cliff talks before years end. Photo: REUTERS.

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... the the ... the markets I'm joined by John Shipman is out Disney's Lion ... Nesat that he is in the CD ending may ... be seeing friends that I needed to be here so looks like ... by this this was the ... cause of modestly positive in the Stock futures of stocks with a little bit higher ... um basically supported by hopes that there's going to be ... a fiscal deal hammered out of Washington ... I says well you would ... hope ... yet that that will happen but I'm it's getting more more price then it seems that the stock market ... um so ... the trees in a very headline driven um we see a little bit of an already this morning on CNBC had ... center pop Corker of Tennessee on his pool of cold water on notions that ... you can have a deal this week ... we saw stock is coming off a little bit of that so ... any of the big thing to coming in today there is no longer isn't really any big data there is ... around ten o'clock still see a survey on sentiment survey from the home builders trade group National sausage homebuilders ... um and that's been trending higher ... expectations are that to go a little bit higher at ten am in ... love it's not can even change the trend in so markets probably not likely to react to it that ... we could get an instant ... Nielsen hasn't agreed to buy Arbitron Nielsen famous for its TV ratings ... thirty forty dollars a share for Arbitron which is a radio rates ... um ... and ... media research group ... and so are you know that's it's about a total of about one point two five billion dollar deals on a big deal but ... on the market's new leasing deal making in general so that helps positive ... by this morning ... will be keeping a close eye on the crust looks more market news that MarketsHub ... at